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May 26, 2005

artist's rendering of planets and stars
Burst of excitement
In the wake of a massive star's death, Harvard astronomers have seen infrared light together with a gamma ray burst for the first time. Above, a flash of high energy radiation from a massive dying star sterilizes an Earth-like planet too close to escape the blast in this artist's rendering. (Artist rendering by David A. Aguilar/CfA)
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Exercise shown to promote breast cancer suvival
Women who walk three to five hours a week 50 percent less likely to die from breast cancer

Pros and amateurs team up for discovery
First-time 'microlensing' collaboration finds new planet

New delivery technology paves way for disease therapies
Modified antibody carries cancer fighters straight to tumor cells

Seeing the universe's most powerful explosion

 

 

 

 

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